Here is another old painting that I picked up to work on again. I’ll have to update this later with the original. I’m pretty sure I’ll continue to do this with various other unfinished sketches I have laying around. I had a lot of good ideas that I never saw through. It’s about time for that.
Here we are, after 4 years, back with plague. This is one of the things I started doing recently, which is fix up old images, to fit with everything I’ve learned. I’ve picked the ones I thought would be more successful if they were finished up. This is still a WIP but I thought it would be fun to show how I work. I think the pictures pretty much sum it all up though.
Leave a comment if you have any questions.
There may be a lot of problems but I had to rush this one. I’m pleased with it, other than those minor errors :/
I felt like this needed to be revisted. It’s still a WIP and a lot of it I’m not sure what to do with, so I’m just having fun with it. It already looks better in the background, but the character needs to be adjusted.
I’m not so sure about that zombie fighter’s lame background :/ I’m still a noob at buildings…for now.
Very simply enough, i start with a gradient background. After that I grab a dark color that is close to that color range, but just darker enough to show up in the gradients darkest areas. I sketch in a real loose sketch that gets her down just good enough to start painting on. I do this much like how I take real sketches to finish, eraser and pencil. I don’t use any other color. I render it out as much as I can on another layer and then start adding a background. Then it is time to throw some temperature colors in. Sometimes adding lights and darks here and there. I work on all 3 layers at once during this stage. Once things look good enough, I flatten the skin layer and the shadow layer and start fixing the painting up, tightening things here and there. Finally it starts to look good enough to finish. Add in details here and there, closer tightening and refined contrast. Done! Sorta :/
By using this method where you have a black and white render, you can then paint under neath that with all the colors you need, as messy as you want. Then move to the sketch layer and adjust the colors with preserve transparency on. That will keep the sketch intact while you change the colors on it. It can sometimes have pretty neat effects if you add blobs of color under it and change the layer settings. Like the picture above. I think it looks more real that way then the actual painting :/
